Stablecoins News
Japan’s Central Bank Starts Experimenting With Digital Yen
On Monday the Bank of Japan (BOJ) started a year long study with its central bank digital currency (CBDC), following the advances made by Ch...
Tether’s USDTs are Fully Backed, Moore Cayman Confirms After Audit
According to this announcement by Tether, third-party audit and assurance services provider Moore Cayman has confirmed USDTs in circulation ...
Chainlink Becomes Sole Provider of Price Data for Origin Dollar (OUSD)
Chainlink (LINK) Oracles have now been integrated onto the Origin Protocol’s mainnet as well as becoming the sole provider of real-tim...
Visa Allows USD Coin (USDC) Cryptocurrency to Settle Transactions
Visa announced on Monday that it now allows partners of its network to clear fiat transactions with the USDC stablecoin using the Ethereum b...
MIT and Boston Fed Releasing Digital Dollar Prototypes “as soon as July”
Researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT are conjuring what might be a major disruption to the financial services industr...
RBA Governor Philip Lowe Reiterates Plans For An Australian Digital Currency
Philip Lowe, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, has reiterated intentions for launching an Australian national digital currency....
Introducing Origin Protocol, The First Stablecoin That Earns a Yield
Blockchain-powered commerce project Origin Protocol has created the OGN token (nicknamed the “Origin Dollar”) which can be stake...
Aussie Programmer Refinances His Property Loan With DeFi In A Single Day, Following Red Tape From Banks
A software engineer has paid off his mortgage to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and refinanced it through fixed-rate lending protocols, ...
EFTPOS Australia To Run Hedera Hashgraph Node
EFTPOS is primed to join the Hedera Governing Council following tests that were run in order to determine the feasibility of a digital AUD f...
USDC Supply Reaches $5 Billion as Tether Dominance Drops below 80%
A recent stats report by Coin Metrics, shows USD Coin (USDC) supply reaching US $5 Billion, rising from just 500 Million since last year. Ab...
Crypto Market Cap Hits One Trillion US Dollars
The overall cryptocurrency market capitalization has reached one trillion US dollars for the first time in history, according to data from t...
Tether (USDt) Market Capitalization has Surpassed US$20 Billion
The fourth-largest digital currency, Tether (USDt) reached a milestone record of US$20 billion on Friday. The record further strengthens the...